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Ww 4, ° Lite tatks between the Quakersbetween tne Uniea tal Consuit Russians Jand the Soviet officiats on fr-Rausia. Let us make are (long-standing question of cultura ‘0 arrange the exchange splbows UGR2TS xchange extended into other field.) Ih Move to Better U.S. Ties inne pee erenecat! cultural eacnanze iteelt n : js of paramount imnortance in it ofS Te arg fern by each 9 By A, M. ROSENTHAL own right. The Quaker beliet is"penred. a good many An For more than a year, the Avtertean Quaker croup that won that cultural excharce is & Pre-.came to the committee an ot heen quietly conferring with “2%? € any permanent under-'it to take on the jor. thNYobel Peace Prize in 1947 5 avdine, (conversations with Mr. G Rusty officials and importantprivate citizens of this count: ents, Writers, religions len adustrial workers, Americ nasians Need to see the re held soon after. For the Quakers, the morat andi “ere held : try to find a basis for estab-n-ilazonhic basis of their eforts is! _ 1 1947. Quakers of the " + jeit belier that it is not enough; States and Eritain received hing better relations between {i.e belier that it is nok enoUgn| set Peace Prize, Tha Not the United States and the Soviet /oy,. Sonie's of Friends, just to tas Parliament made the awar ns sous Sari ’y of . ly to the American Frend Union. Pose steps leading to war. They ce Committee and the Emphasizing the importance ofteel tuat it is part of their durach COmanie es a aden. cultura! exchange hetween the to :° help actively in providing a oasis ior peace if any is possible. ~ countries, the-American Friends Service Committee has had broad talks with Russian representatives ‘in New York. One of them ic Soviet Deputy Foreizn Minister jAndXgi A. Gromyko. who ie known ito hav the tee has! ent non-| as well Kerg, and the State Departm is being Kept informed of developments.| |The committee has stressed care-/ fulness and thoroughness and has steered away from pubic Mouncements or private predictions) Of spectacular success, A working, Party set up within the committee expects to make a public report this summer, Thus far the work of the com-: Wmittce and its conversations with! Soviet representatives have been! based on two jumping-off pointe:i 1. The urgent necessity of operine the deors for cultural exchange tween the two countries, 2. The importance of convincing both*sides that the Soviet and The current work of tne commit- "ves ie traced back to a full-page advertisement that appeared in! Tht New York TIMcs of Aprili 21, 1948. The advertisement was; Piaced by the American Friends ciyice Committee ard ran under the reading “Not by might. power, ont by My spunit. . ‘The advertisement spoke of the! “dread prospect” af war betwern! tha Sovirt Union and the United States and suczestet three steps t9 counteract that possibility: 1. “Begin peace talks now. Let a group of leading American citi- zens meet this spring to formulate proposals for a general settlement outstanding issues hetween the doo ftiates and the Soviet Union. et these proposald he dely dfoated and then laid be-' fore the{ American and Russian ads of Government, urging that they meet again in new faith and with a new spirit.” 2. “Strengthen the United Ni tions. Let. the United States dem- onstrate now, in action, its loyalty to the Urited Nations and its de- termunation to strengthen it as an insirument of world law and or- der. We helieve Russia would r spond to such a move * © 8" 3. “Promote personal contacts. Y American systems can avoid war'Let American private organizg- and live ia “peaceful competi-:tions with experience in internd- ton.” opel affairs unite in undertakirtz! Quaker sources declined com a Mii Program to pré-{ = rn fereray times been held in the presence of important non-Quaker Americans. it was said that the Quaker. Gromyko talks were a separate matter ,from conversations thats IAMLr. pfomvka ie rennrtad ta be 4 ment on Soviet reaction to t ote intercultural uz derstanding 4 clipping from___ . feeting-out processes. But in high| page___{ of the a diplomatic circles it was reported i for : \ that the exchanges between the New York Times i . be committee and the Russian dele- : % X gates were continuing. te ~ These discussions have some- be fie $1949 Clipped at the Seat of Government _